Highways Agency driving
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Turned off M4 heading for Bristol. Turned off again after a couple of hundred yards to join the Bristol northern bypass. This slip road starts as two lanes and near the bottom expands to three lanes and entrance onto the roundabout is controlled by traffic lights – the left and middle lane can both turn left.
When I join the slip road in the outer lane traffic is at a standstill and two vehicles in front of me is a Highways Agency 4x4. Sudden the HA 4x4 switches on all his lights and forces his way through the traffic in the inner lane and onto the hard shoulder. He drives down the hard shoulder and stops just before the traffic lights. The lights change and he now forces his way through two lanes of traffic back into the outside lane. As soon as he is back in the outer lane he switches off his lights. All the traffic in the left and middle lane turns left so when the HA 4x4 stops at the traffic lights 90 degrees around the roundabout I am now directly behind him. So he gained nothing.
I decide this is pretty poor driving and ask my passenger to make a note of his number. My passenger points out that there is no rear numberplate. There is a mounting point for a spare wheel, but no spare wheel, so I assume that the numberplate is normally mounted in the centre of the spare wheel.
When I get home I remember that there is a cheap digital camera in my glovebox!
>> Edited by Philbes on Thursday 27th April 09:52
When I join the slip road in the outer lane traffic is at a standstill and two vehicles in front of me is a Highways Agency 4x4. Sudden the HA 4x4 switches on all his lights and forces his way through the traffic in the inner lane and onto the hard shoulder. He drives down the hard shoulder and stops just before the traffic lights. The lights change and he now forces his way through two lanes of traffic back into the outside lane. As soon as he is back in the outer lane he switches off his lights. All the traffic in the left and middle lane turns left so when the HA 4x4 stops at the traffic lights 90 degrees around the roundabout I am now directly behind him. So he gained nothing.
I decide this is pretty poor driving and ask my passenger to make a note of his number. My passenger points out that there is no rear numberplate. There is a mounting point for a spare wheel, but no spare wheel, so I assume that the numberplate is normally mounted in the centre of the spare wheel.
When I get home I remember that there is a cheap digital camera in my glovebox!
>> Edited by Philbes on Thursday 27th April 09:52
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